A Canandaigua man was charged April 3 after allegedly striking a bartender in the arm with a snow shovel and biting the finger of a patron at the Farmer’s Inn on Coach Street, said Canandaigua city police.

A Canandaigua man was charged April 3 after allegedly striking a bartender in the arm with a snow shovel and biting the finger of a patron at the Farmer’s Inn on Coach Street, said Canandaigua city police.

According to police, Lewis R. Knight, 39, of 4631 East Lake Road, was charged with two counts of second-degree assault, a class D felony. The patron received treatment at F.F. Thompson Hospital in Canandaigua for a broken finger and lacerations, and the bartender was treated at the scene by the Canandaigua Ambulance, police said.

Knight was arraigned at the Canandaigua City Court and sent to the Ontario County Jail without bail.